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On this episode of Power & Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho take a look at this week's off-year elections. Were any of the outcomes a real surprise? Does Mamdami reflect the future of the left? Will affordability bring down MAGA? The roundtable discuss these questions and more.

While giddy socialists are proclaiming that Zohran Mamdani's electoral victory is the beginning of a socialist takeover of the U.S., the Democratic Socialists of America have a long way before they can complete their stated mission.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/election-mamdani-what-it-means-and-what-it-doesnt-mean

The justices that Trump appointed to the Supreme Court have shown a recent intolerance for the kinds of semantic leaps his administration is relying on to justify its tariffs. Will they remain consistent or fall in line behind the president?

Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/trumps-tariff-power-grab

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Dr. David Gordon explains why the leading philosophical defenses of taxation—from Rawls’s difference principle to Nagel & Murphy’s “myth of ownership”—collapse, and why natural rights still say taxation is theft.

Sponsored by Jane Shaffer, in Memory of Butler Shaffer.

Recorded at the Mises Supporters Summit in Delray Beach, Florida, on October 17, 2025.

Dr. Timothy Terrell explains how the federal government’s vast land holdings breed crowding, decay, and wildfire risk—and why returning land to private owners, guided by prices and responsibility, yields healthier parks and forests.

Sponsored by Brian and Shanna Tvenstrup.

Recorded at the Mises Supporters Summit in Delray Beach, Florida, on October 17, 2025.

Ryan McMaken takes a deep dive on food stamp spending, food stamp recipients, and how Big Ag and other industry lobbyists fight to keep food stamp spending flowing and increasing. 

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Dr. Shawn Ritenour draws on Mises to show that specialization and trade align long-run interests and raise living standards when prices are guided by sound money. He also argues that state interventions—especially Fed bailouts and credit expansion—pit citizen against citizen and fuel inequality, underscoring the need for real economic education of the kind fostered by the Mises Institute.

Sponsored by Don Printz.

Recorded at the Mises Supporters Summit in Delray Beach, Florida, on October 17, 2025.

Is paying down the federal debt a recession trigger? Bob takes on the MMT claim and checks the record, citing US debt payoffs, Canada’s 1990s reforms, and ECB case studies. Conclusion: real wealth beats accounting tricks and paydowns aren’t a mechanical path to recession.

• Read More on Fiscal Austerity: Mises.org/HAP524a
• The Upside-Down World of MMT: Mises.org/HAP524b
• Do Balanced Budgets Cause Depressions?: Mises.org/HAP524c

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Speaking at the recent Mises Institute Supporters Summit, Mark Thornton argues that lasting reform comes from the bottom up, not from political edict. Drawing on Hayek’s “worst get to the top” insight, Mark contrasts elite-driven prohibition with the citizen-led wave of decriminalization and legalization across states and abroad. Mark also explains the role of “salutary neglect” by local officials, the Oregon backlash as a failure of property-rights enforcement—not of liberty—and the scholarly case against the drug war. The crux: markets and civil society integrate; top-down policy divides.

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On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Jonathan Newman joins Ryan and Tho to discuss this week's Fed rate cut, and to breakdown down Jerome Powell's most recent press conference.